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Wally are you OK? Are you OK? Are you OK, Wally?
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Weatherman posted:Wally are you OK? Are you OK? Are you OK, Wally? Speaking of...I'm still slowing working on the higher quality Fred Astaire version:  And yes, I refuse to upgrade from AVID Media Composer to join all the zoomers that use Premiere. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 06:10 on Mar 7, 2021 |
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Mar 7, 2021 05:54
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whither waldo
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Mar 7, 2021 15:52
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This is quite funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d60V9yAPE_s
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Mar 13, 2021 04:38
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Which would take less tape space: the audio recording of canyon.mid or the file stored Kansas style?
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Mar 13, 2021 06:56
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One Eye Open posted:You have to be careful when you turn them on now, as the mosfets in the internal power supply degrade with time rather than use. One day I turned my T1200 on after a couple of years, and it was dead. I tested the power supply, and it was putting 12V on all the lines, straight from the external power supply, including the 3.3V line, happily frying all the Toshiba proprietary ASICs:( I looked it up on retro support forums, and apparently it's a thing. Eventually, I'm going to stick a pi in the case, running DOSbox, as I love the keyboard. Is this a thing that happens with all mosfets, or just particular manufacturers, or some made in particular eras? I'm pretty sure I saw one on an old 486 motherboard I was using recently. Also that sucks that your cool old system died 
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Mar 13, 2021 11:32
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Which would take less tape space: the audio recording of canyon.mid or the file stored Kansas style? Canyon.mid is 2:02 and 33 kilobytes. The 1200 baud variant of KCS has a bit rate of 960 bits per second when you take into account the framing. So it would be 4:42 when encoded. So hey, it would be better to just record the audio.
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Mar 13, 2021 15:29
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Welcome to the future!  https://twitter.com/HumanoidHistory/status/1370895911589662721?s=20
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Mar 14, 2021 01:44
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Dick Trauma posted:Welcome to the future! hell yeah
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Mar 14, 2021 03:49
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Buttcoin purse posted:Is this a thing that happens with all mosfets, or just particular manufacturers, or some made in particular eras? I'm pretty sure I saw one on an old 486 motherboard I was using recently. I've only heard about that happening to the Toshiba T1x00 series power supplies. The late 80s/early 90s was when both the process and chemistry of mosfet manufacture were changing rapidly, so it could have just been a bad batch.
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Mar 15, 2021 21:10
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Dick Trauma posted:Welcome to the future! Commodore US Marketing Department: Hey, what the gently caress are we supposed to be selling again?
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Mar 17, 2021 03:45
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You Am I posted:Commodore US Marketing Department: Hey, what the gently caress are we supposed to be selling again? I'm still kinda bitter 30 years later that Amiga died the way it did just because Commodore were so amazingly incompetent at running a business, pissing away any and all advantage they had with a winning product in their hands. (Yeah, Amiga would've died anyways, but still)
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Mar 17, 2021 12:16
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barbecue at the folks posted:I'm still kinda bitter 30 years later that Amiga died the way it did just because Commodore were so amazingly incompetent at running a business, pissing away any and all advantage they had with a winning product in their hands. (Yeah, Amiga would've died anyways, but still) Piracy killed the Amiga.
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Mar 17, 2021 12:41
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Yet it didn't kill the C64 or the PC.
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Mar 17, 2021 12:46
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KozmoNaut posted:Yet it didn't kill the C64 or the PC. This is what killed PC: 
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Mar 17, 2021 12:48
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KozmoNaut posted:Yet it didn't kill the C64 or the PC. "Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK" "Ahh but for some reason he didn't kill Jesus Christ, Adolf Hitler, and Marilyn Monroe. Curious!"
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Mar 17, 2021 12:59
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Bad business decisions by Commodore and a severe lack of 3D capabilities right when that was becoming the new thing, is what killed the Amiga. It was a 2D powerhouse in a world that was quickly going all-in on 3D. Even the most powerful Amiga models could barely run Doom, let alone Quake.
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Mar 17, 2021 13:08
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We were discussing portable audio in another thread, so I decided to show off a little of my collection: High res: https://imgur.com/a/jaV9bkp
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Mar 17, 2021 13:11
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Man I miss that solid feel of vintage Sony electronics, the feeling that you really are holding a marvel of space age engineering in your hands. I always wanted a minidisc Walkman but was too young to afford one myself and my parents definitely didn't have the cash to spend. 
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Mar 17, 2021 14:35
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That Discman in the upper left is real nice. I have a soft spot for Sony electronics that are laden down with a million buttons and menu keys even if the user-friendliness is terrible. Their portable shortwave radios were masterpieces in that regard:
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Mar 17, 2021 16:29
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barbecue at the folks posted:Man I miss that solid feel of vintage Sony electronics, the feeling that you really are holding a marvel of space age engineering in your hands. I always wanted a minidisc Walkman but was too young to afford one myself and my parents definitely didn't have the cash to spend. I miss the satisfying button click and weight of the old TI scientific calculators. RPN, man.
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Mar 17, 2021 17:15
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I miss the satisfying button click and weight of the old TI scientific calculators. RPN, man. You're describing HP calculators
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Mar 17, 2021 17:25
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TotalLossBrain posted:You're describing HP calculators edit: And an HP style calculator app because RPN 4 lyfe. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 17:50 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Mar 17, 2021 17:29
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3D Megadoodoo posted:"Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK" "Yes, exactly. I am saying that Lee Harvey Oswald shot all three of them, and for some reason was only able to successfully kill JFK. I refer to this as the 'non-magic bullet' theory."
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Mar 17, 2021 17:42
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TotalLossBrain posted:You're describing HP calculators I started to say HP but then corrected it. Sigh. My brain is obsolete and failed.
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Mar 17, 2021 18:01
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Porfiriato posted:That Discman in the upper left is real nice. I have a soft spot for Sony electronics that are laden down with a million buttons and menu keys even if the user-friendliness is terrible. Their portable shortwave radios were masterpieces in that regard: A lot of prepers really love this radio (or a very similar one) for various reasons, so it's dumb expensive now.
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Mar 17, 2021 18:22
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A few nights ago I listened to TheReportOfTheWeek's radio program on my shortwave radio. That was an interesting experience. I wish the old GBS shortwave thread still existed.
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Mar 17, 2021 18:57
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Neito posted:A lot of prepers really love this radio (or a very similar one) for various reasons, so it's dumb expensive now. something similar is true for the HP calculators being discussed alongside this. Calculator nerds consider the HP-48 series to be the best HP ever made* (though there were other great ones like the -28). They took a dump starting with the HP-49 model, trying to imitate TI with cheap rubber buttons and a similar OS. The HP48 already sold for more than its new price when I checked ~10 years ago, thanks to calculator nerds. I still keep mine in my desk drawer in the cubicle I haven't really sat in for over a year, thinking I will surely use it for some calculatin'. It hasn't happened yet. It's been sitting there since 2012. *they are correct
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Mar 17, 2021 20:10
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I've always joked about TI-8X's being super overpriced for 10 dollars worth of components, but I didn't realize what all it could do until I started taking engineering classes. This thing does integrals and probabilities and complex numbers and eulers whatever and all kinds of useful poo poo. I rarely ever do any sort of graphing with it, but I've done all kinds of advanced calculus and linear algebra and circuit analysis stuff with it. I think the only thing I'm missing is the CAS stuff the nspire has.
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Mar 17, 2021 20:24
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Porfiriato posted:That Discman in the upper left is real nice. I have a soft spot for Sony electronics that are laden down with a million buttons and menu keys even if the user-friendliness is terrible. Their portable shortwave radios were masterpieces in that regard:  it was WATER RESISTANT! the ESP worked but drat it was not very good.
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Mar 17, 2021 22:18
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barbecue at the folks posted:I'm still kinda bitter 30 years later that Amiga died the way it did just because Commodore were so amazingly incompetent at running a business, pissing away any and all advantage they had with a winning product in their hands. (Yeah, Amiga would've died anyways, but still) Most of Commodore's overseas areas like UK, Europe and Australia were strong, it almost seemed like the US arm's management was completely stupid, killing off projects at the last minute or trying to do poo poo like the C65, the answer to no one's question. The success of the C64 was definitely their hubris
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Mar 18, 2021 02:10
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LifeSunDeath posted:This radio looks cool, I like the buttons for some reason, makes me think of my discman SPORTS
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Mar 18, 2021 02:15
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evobatman posted:We were discussing portable audio in another thread, so I decided to show off a little of my collection: I know someone who wants that Silver NetMD with the dock up the back. (Me)
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Mar 18, 2021 03:06
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Humphreys posted:I know someone who wants that Silver NetMD with the dock up the back. I have the blue one still, not sure if it came with a dock or not. Probably still works but it's been a decade since I used it.
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Mar 18, 2021 03:11
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TotalLossBrain posted:something similar is true for the HP calculators being discussed alongside this. Calculator nerds consider the HP-48 series to be the best HP ever made* (though there were other great ones like the -28). They took a dump starting with the HP-49 model, trying to imitate TI with cheap rubber buttons and a similar OS. The 48 is a perfectly fine calculator. The 41C... well, when NASA wanted a backup of last resort for calculating orbital mechanics in the space shuttle, so that the astronauts could still get home even if all the onboard computers failed, they went to an office supply store in Houston, bought some HP-41Cs, slapped in a timer module, replaced the rubber feet with Velcro, wrote some custom programs, and sent them into space. As far as I know, nobody’s seen fit to put an HP-48 into the National Air and Space Museum. It might be a bit faster and a touch more capable, but I think we all know which one wins on rule-of-cool here. never let this distract us from what’s really important, though: gently caress a TI, lyfe [enter] 4 [enter] RPN [enter]
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Mar 18, 2021 03:29
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Space Gopher posted:never let this distract us from what’s really important, though: gently caress a TI, lyfe [enter] 4 [enter] RPN [enter] 
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Mar 18, 2021 04:31
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Space Gopher posted:never let this distract us from what’s really important, though: gently caress a TI, lyfe [enter] 4 [enter] RPN [enter] 
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Mar 18, 2021 05:14
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Calculator weirdos make me and the old stuff I'm into look relatively normal and for that I thank you. Also my high school had a rule that we could only use old TI machines, no I'm not bitter at all still, 20 years later
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Mar 18, 2021 07:40
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You Am I posted:Most of Commodore's overseas areas like UK, Europe and Australia were strong, it almost seemed like the US arm's management was completely stupid, killing off projects at the last minute or trying to do poo poo like the C65, the answer to no one's question. Bil Herd (the C128 designer) has some Youtube videos where he talks about his time at Commodore in the mid-80s and it sounds like a hellhole - a boardroom full of sleazy conmen, cokehead middle managers who responded to every minor problem by screaming "FIX IT OR YOU'RE FIRED!" and throwing tantrums, and people working on obvious dead-end projects to build high-end versions of games machines to sell to the business market that had already settled on the IBM PC. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 13:47 on Mar 18, 2021 |
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Space Gopher posted:never let this distract us from what’s really important, though: gently caress a TI, lyfe [enter] 4 [enter] RPN [enter] Speaking of, what was it with every Java tutorial in the early 2000s having some variation on an RPN calculator as one of the projects?
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